North Korea - how serious should we take them?
Discussion
Petrus1983 said:
The general consensus is to laugh at them and post more silly pictures - the reality (unbelievably) is they've just humiliated an Asian/US powerhouse a bunch of overpaid weasels who work for a studio that Sony bought when they had more money than sense. Whilst I don't applaud them it's quite impressive no matter what the PR says.
Not so impressive really; perhaps the lesson here is that multinational corporations should stick to what they know.Efbe said:
much more likely it was password guessing; running a handful of passwords over many usernames/e-mail addresses.
it's not hacking, and you could do it from a spectrum.
Absolute nonsense.it's not hacking, and you could do it from a spectrum.
Whilst the info that has come out thus far has shown Sony's internal security policies weren't fantastic after they dumped their third party team, this was far from "password guessing".
As others have suggested, the Norks are widely known to have a vast and highly skilled cyber warfare team, who are capable of more than "password guessing".
Nyphur said:
Efbe said:
much more likely it was password guessing; running a handful of passwords over many usernames/e-mail addresses.
it's not hacking, and you could do it from a spectrum.
Absolute nonsense.it's not hacking, and you could do it from a spectrum.
Whilst the info that has come out thus far has shown Sony's internal security policies weren't fantastic after they dumped their third party team, this was far from "password guessing".
As others have suggested, the Norks are widely known to have a vast and highly skilled cyber warfare team, who are capable of more than "password guessing".
Halmyre said:
Someone on the radio hinted yesterday that Sony might (I said might) be glad to have it pulled because it's not been getting good reviews - as they said "we're not talking Citizen Kane here". What it will do is bump up interest in getting hold of the film so DVD sales should be sprightly. Ker-ching.
Much as that is an interesting idea, I don't think Sony would go to such lengths only to end up appearing to be a bunch of fraidy-cats.
I don't think, having spent millions of dollars on production, that a film company would be happy to entirely shelve a film simply because the reviews weren't likely to be great. Yes, some films go straight to DVD and others are canned at various stages, but to totally wipe out any reasonable chance of a return on a mainstream film that has cost you millions of dollars doesn't seem commercially sensible.Much as that is an interesting idea, I don't think Sony would go to such lengths only to end up appearing to be a bunch of fraidy-cats.
If you knew that releasing the film would also lead to the release of information that could sink your company or various important characters within it, that might tempt you to run a cost risk analysis though...
tangerine_sedge said:
I've not been following the details very closely, but most of the details coming out seem to indicate that the hackers have had access to file repositories/sharepoint sites etc. I'm not sure that they 've penetrated much further than a normal employee might be able to.
It is fairly obvious that you haven't been following the details very closely.They have accessed far more than "SharePoint sites"...
Nyphur said:
As others have suggested, the Norks are widely known to have a vast and highly skilled cyber warfare team, who are capable of more than "password guessing".
Looks like the FBI think so too. They've just formally declared NK as the prime suspect after comparing certain aspects of the hack with previous Nork attacks against other institutions.Time to hit back. Show the film, protect Sony, and send KJU a copy on VHS.
Cobnapint said:
Nyphur said:
As others have suggested, the Norks are widely known to have a vast and highly skilled cyber warfare team, who are capable of more than "password guessing".
Looks like the FBI think so too. They've just formally declared NK as the prime suspect after comparing certain aspects of the hack with previous Nork attacks against other institutions.Time to hit back. Show the film, protect Sony, and send KJU a copy on VHS.
Cobnapint said:
Nyphur said:
As others have suggested, the Norks are widely known to have a vast and highly skilled cyber warfare team, who are capable of more than "password guessing".
Looks like the FBI think so too. They've just formally declared NK as the prime suspect after comparing certain aspects of the hack with previous Nork attacks against other institutions.Time to hit back. Show the film, protect Sony, and send KJU a copy on VHS.
t Seth Rogen film.
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